Three demonstrators stripped and simulated sexual activity during special Ascension Day services in the Oslo Cathedral on Thursday. They reportedly were protesting the recent dismissal of an Oslo pastor over his public accounts of his own sexual experiences.

VG reported that the demonstration in the cathedral occurred just as the cathedral’s pastor led a procession up its main aisle. The three naked persons were posed at the alter, “in Adam and Eve position,” Pastor Caroline Haugland-Formoe told VG.

The demonstrators’ reported goal was to show their support for Pastor Einar Gelius, who had to leave his post as pastor for Vålerenga Church in Oslo after he published a book last year called “Sex in the Bible.” In addition to chronicling various references to sex in biblical text, Gelius also reflected on his own sexual behaviour in passages that some church officials equated to pornography.

Apple lovers are known for their somewhat radical devotion to any new products the company introduces, but selling body parts to afford them is definitely something new — and scary. According to Global Times, a youngster in China's Anhui province wanted a new iPad 2 tablet so badly he was willing to part with a kidney to be able to afford it.

This morning, my ISP sent me a SMS about a quiz on their website. Participating is free and the prizes are the newest iPads. I don't care because I don't care about any of the nice Apple products. I would not want them even if someone tried to give it to me, and here's someone willing to sell a body part for it.

British intelligence has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.

The cyber-warfare operation was launched by MI6 and GCHQ in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular to recruit “lone-wolf” terrorists with a new English-language magazine, the Daily Telegraph understands.

This is what Facebook can do... A teenage Hamburg girl forgot to mark a her 16th birthday party invite as "private". The party was cancelled and her parents hired a security company. Police, some mounted on horses were also in place, but it ended in chaos nevertheless.

Some 1,500 people showed up outside the house of a Hamburg girl celebrating her 16th birthday on Friday, after she posted an invite on social networking site Facebook but mistakenly listed the party as a public event.

The girl, named as Thessa, cancelled the party after 15,000 people RSVP'd to her "sweet sixteen" birthday bash via Facebook.

Police broke up the party at 1:55 am on Saturday morning. More than 100 officers were at the scene. Six revelers were arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery and property damage, but they have since been released.

Thessa opted to celebrate her birthday elsewhere.

Police said some people were injured after they stepped on pieces of broken glass. "Multiple units" were stationed outside the family's house, a spokesman said, and several streets were closed off. The family also hired a private security company.

As the evening wore on, there were isolated incidents of bottles and firecrackers being thrown toward the police.

"There were stones, bottles and fireworks flying, and party guests took apart (people's) front gardens," Streiber said. "Fences were trampled."

Some revelers opted to enjoy the celebrations from garage rooftops on the street.

"If you are not all that familiar with Facebook, in the future you should look closely at the user conditions before you send out invites," Streiber said.

About 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, water officials say, a 21-year-old Molalla man was caught on camera urinating in one of Portland's uncovered reservoirs -- one that provides water to a majority of Portlanders.

From a gross-out perspective, that's enough to make residents wary of turning on the tap.

What about animals and birds peeing and crapping there? I'm sure they have (or should have) a way to cleanse the water.

Bear Grylls can confirm it is safe to drink concentrated urine. I think it's safe to say that no one would ever notice this man's urine diluted in 30 million liters (7.8 million gallons) of water.

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But Chris Wanner, director of operations for the Water Bureau, said he was worried -- though less about the urine than about unknown items thrown into the water by a group of five people who hung around Mount Tabor early Wednesday.

Even so, Portland's five open reservoirs are susceptible to dead rodents, birds or bird poop. Water quality is tested, but reservoirs aren't drained because of dead animals.

"We look at that as part of the business of open reservoirs," Wanner said.

That's about the only explanation for why the Lincoln North Star High School teacher and competitive runner dressed up in a hot dog suit for a five-kilometer jaunt around Haymarket Park on Friday in 90-degree heat.

With a swirl of mustard on his chest and a wiener-shaped hood on his head, Wandzilak used his one-minute head start to finish 83rd out of about 400 runners who competed in the Cornhusker State Games event.

The run, which ended beyond the outfield fence as the Saltdogs took on the Kansas City T-Bones in the background, was more fun than Wandzilak imagined it might be.

Despite dressing up as concession stand fare, Wandzilak said his legs and arms were relatively unrestricted. The hood was the only problem, making breathing a challenge as he circled the stadium's parking lot and ran to and from a nearby park.

Wandzilak finished in just a little more than 26 minutes, about 10 minutes slower than the 41-year-old winner, Ivan Ivanov of Lincoln.

While the North Star economics and government teacher's run was about fun, others were on hand to compete.

Nate Morhardt, 16, came in from Omaha for the race. A cross-country runner at Millard West High School who was an alternate at last year's state meet, Morhardt and a teammate used the run to get in shape for the coming season.

It was Morhardt's first ever road race, and he hoped to finish in 19 minutes. His time of 21:01 was past his goal, but still five minutes ahead of the hot dog and good enough for a top-20 finish.

At about the half-mile point, it became clear any dreams of a hot dog triumph were over. But as runner after runner passed Wandzilak, they greeted him with high-fives and well-wishes.

Except for the guy who yelled, "Ketchup."

Brian Wandzilak, the hot dog, finishes the Cornhusker State Games road race during the Haymarket Dog Chase on Friday, July 22, 2011. (BRYNN ANDERSON/Lincoln Journal Star)

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia — Police have discovered the remains of more than two dozen women who were dug up from their graves by a man some described as a "genius," BNO News reported.

The bodies were found this week in the home of 45-year-old Anatoly Moskvina, who lives alone in the city of Nizhny Novgorod in western Russia. The discovery was made when Moskvina's parents visited him after returning from a vacation.

Russian media reported that Moskvina kept at least 26 bodies in his small, three-room apartment. They all belong to females aged between 15 and 26 who died years ago. The bodies were "dried up," Interfax reported.

Go to the site to get the story.

I'm not smart enough to get 26 females in my house at the same time, so that Russian must have done something right.

Why the fuck did they put 'genius' in quotation marks? It wasn't his fucking nickname, the guy literally was a genius. Of course, he was also a loser. I mean, 45 and still living with your parents? Shit.

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QUOTE (Darth Sexy @ Sep 12 2009, 03:43 AM)

Massacre, you make me look like a rational, moral, kind person.

QUOTE (Marney1 @ Oct 26 2009, 01:22 PM)

Massacre - What you've just posted is sick and disturbing...

QUOTE (ViceMan @ Jan 17 2010, 04:22 PM)

When Massacre is around, everything is violated... Whether it likes it or not.

Kathmandu - Eighteen people were killed in eastern Nepal when a tractor pulling a trailer of passengers plunged into a canal, police said.

The tractor carrying Hindu pilgrims from Dhanusha district was headed to a religious fair when it fell into a canal in Bharaul, Sunsari district.

Police said the accident could have been caused by overcrowding, as nearly 50 people were travelling on the flatbed trailer behind the small tractor.

The victims were 16 women and two men. Twenty-four people were pulled alive from the canal, and had been hospitalised, police said, adding that local residents were helping them look for more survivors.

A pilot who accidentally locked himself in the bathroom of his LaGuardia-bound plane caused a terror scare last night when a helpful passenger with an accent tried to come to his rescue by banging on the cockpit door.

The embarrassing comedy of errors began when the captain of a Chatauqua Airlines flight from Asheville, N.Car., decided to take a bathroom break before landing.

But when he tried to get out of the men’s room, the door jammed, trapping him in the tight quarters.

Desperate to get out and land the plane — which was in a holding pattern above the airport — he pounded his fists on the door to attract attention.

A well-intentioned passenger sitting in the front row heard his thumping and hurried over to help.

Relieved, the pilot told the passenger to go to the cockpit and alert the crew to his plight.

But crew members didn’t react well to the unexpected visit from a stranger trying to breach the highly secure area of the plane.

The jittery co-pilot — at the controls and wondering why his boss’ bathroom break was taking forever — thought the unfamiliar accent was Middle Eastern, a source told The Post.

Practically stammering, he quickly radioed air traffic control.

“We are 180 knots 10,000 [feet] uh, can we leave the frequency for a minute? We are going to try to, uh contact dispatch,” he said.

“The captain disappeared in the back, and, uh, I have someone with a thick foreign accent trying to access the cockpit.”

Even after the passenger explained through the door that the captain was locked in the john, the co-pilot was still suspicious.

“What I’m being told is he’s stuck in the lav [lavatory], and, uh, someone with a thick foreign accent is giving me a password to access the cockpit,” he said.

He clearly did not believe the passenger.

“I’m not about to let him in,” the nervous co-pilot told the LaGuardia tower.

The controller, also spooked, advised the pilot to declare an emergency and “just get on the ground.’’

The captain finally extricated himself and told his colleagues all was well.

Before that happened fighter planes were alerted, although they were never scrambled.

When an air traffic controller called to check if “there any level of disturbance on the airplane,” the pilot got on and responded “negative.”

“The captain, myself, went back to the lavatory and the door latch broke and I had to fight my way out of it with my body to get the door open ,” he said.

“There is no issue, no threat.”

The FBI and Port Authority cops met the plane when it landed around 6:30 pm.

A spokesman for Chatauqua — which runs the regional flight under the Delta name — said cops talked to the passenger and quickly realized it was all a misunderstanding.